With a few commitments in the morning yesterday my son James and I didn't get to the ramp until about 12pm but we were both keen to get out for a fish. When we left home the breeze seemed pretty light but getting closer to the coast you could see the trees moving a bit. Organised, we headed out into a lumpy ocean from Hillarys. The breeze was doing better than forecast with the occasional whitecap rolling through. James though had been reading the measuring sticker and was asking about WA Dhufish and after answering his 20 questions he declared that was what he was going to catch.

We anchored up in about 16m of water after seeing a good show on the sounder and even though we were getting tossed around I rigged up an outfit for James and he sent it to the bottom. I hadn't even got my rig out of the rod holder when he claimed he was getting bites. Not long after he said he had a fish on! When I looked over the rod was bent over and leaning on the gunnel and I was sure he was caught on the bottom. I went to try and free the rod and felt some action on the end. He couldn't reel the fish in himself without falling overboard so I lifted while he wound and we worked as a team.

When it breaks the surface he sees his first Dhu and at 53cms although it was legal, I've heard stories of them shrinking so after a couple of pics we sent it back. We got our lines back in the water and not long after James called seasick so we packed up left. He was quite happy with the fact he caught the biggest fish of the day since I only got a wrasse! As soon as we were underway he was fine again so we motored back to the ramp happy.

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